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Dedicated to Thiemo Seufer.

Welcome to this year's 18th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

TODO:

New maintainer for search.debian.org needed

Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de> is urgently seeking a new maintainer for search.debian.org. The search engine is a slightly patched xapian-omega instance. You should be a Developer (or a team) for access to the installation. Some more improvements to the language support are desirable, that involves some C++, but Thomas would try to help out there, too.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/01/msg00024.html

Security support for next testing (squeeze)

The Testing Security Team announced that security support for the next Debian testing (codename squeeze) will not begin immediately after the release of lenny as stable. Users of Debian testing who need security support should stay with lenny until the begin of security support for squeeze is announced.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-security-announce/2008/12/msg00019.html

Other news

Maybe: http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/12/21/planet-i18n.html

The Xth issue of the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/... miscellaneous news for developers] has been released and covers the following topics:

Simon ?McVittie wrote a small [http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2009/01/08_debian_bzr_to_git/ HOWTO] about "converting Debian packaging from bzr to git".

[http://gnowgi.org/2008/12/16/debian-dependency-map/ Nagarjuna G.] started a [http://www.gnowledge.org/search_debmap?val=1 service], drawing graphs representing dependency information of Debian packages, for example for [http://www.gnowledge.org/debmap_view?objid=python python] or [http://www.gnowledge.org/debmap_view?objid=emacs21 emacs21].

Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez [http://ekaia.org/blog/2009/01/01/new-years-proposal-look-at-your-reported-bugs/ proposed] to look at bug reports you reported and update their status as new years resolution and gave a brief explanation on how to do so. She also proposed to help the maintainer of you favourite package with their bugs.

New Developers

X applicants have been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/... accepted] as Debian Developers since the prior issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Foo, Bar and Baz in our project!

New Maintainer

One applicant has been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/12/msg00086.html accepted] as Debian Maintainer since the prior issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Tiago Bortoletto Vaz into our project!

Important Debian Security Advisories

Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa- foo], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-... bar] and [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-... baz]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last two weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ security mailing list] for announcements.

New and noteworthy packages

The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently ([http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg among others]):

Debian Package of the Day featured the packages [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/12/21/watch-from-procps-execute-a-program-at-regular-intervals-and-show-the-output/ procps] (watch: Execute a program at regular intervals and show the output), [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/12/28/atool-handling-archives-without-headaches/ atool] (handling archives without headaches) and [http://debaday.debian.net/2009/01/04/tellico-collection-manager-for-books-videos-music-and-a-whole-lot-more/ tellico] (a collection manager for books, videos, music and a whole lot more).

Work-needing packages

Currently x packages are orphaned and y packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/... recent] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/... reports] to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of [http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested packages which need your help].

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